Re: Focus drive fixed, but now HFS problems

["Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>]

"Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> >  Resize your HFV
> >partition to be one "block" less in size than it currently is (however
many
> >K that works out to) and try to initialize the HFV partition again.  (Due
> to
> >a GUI bug, you may have to shrink it by two blocks - notice how if you
drag
> >the slider all the way to the top, you get one "max" value...then try
using
> >the "single" buttons to reduce it by one "block" and then add it
back...it
> >won't.)
>
> I assume you mean HFS, and yes I did notice that slider/max size problem,
> can't remember which one I elected to use, so I'll try again. Do I move
the
> slider all the way up and click once on the down arrow, or get it most of
> the way up, and click on the up arrow until it is maxed out ?

Yes, I meant HFS.  =)  Too many emulators.  <G>

Either way.  In my case, one drive required that I come down one "notch"
from the "dragging max", on another, I had to decrease it by two "clicks".
YMMV.

> >Note: This only affects HFV partitions at the end of the disk.
>
> Yes the HFS was at the end. So, if it was elsewhere, like 2nd last, this
bug
> would not have shown it's ugly head ?

Right - the only way you won't see this bug is if the size of the last
partition is > 32M and you initialize it as ProDOS (or "dodge" the
end-of-disk miscalculation on the part of FocusFormat as above).

I think this problem only surfaces on rather large drives and is likely a
rounding error, but I can't prove that.

Rodney